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Workflow 02 — Decision Governance

BSA & fraud.

Governed disposition of every BSA alert, SAR decision, and fraud case with named owner and rationale.

The reasoning behind a closed alert survives the analyst who wrote it leaving.

Exposure
Highest
Economic buyer
Chief Operating Officer
Available in
Team+

What goes wrong without it

Alert rationale unclear

Closed alerts often lack the documented reasoning examiners now expect to see.

SAR aging hard to see

Filing deadlines depend on tribal knowledge instead of a visible queue.

Disposition inconsistent

Similar typologies get closed differently depending on which analyst picked them up.

The shared decision anatomy

Every workflow follows the same five steps. Here’s how bsa & fraud uses them, with the artifact captured at each step.

01 Signal
BSA alert or fraud case generated by monitoring systems or staff escalation. Structuring alert on 7 cash deposits totaling $48k over 5 business days.
→ Alert record
02 Owner
BSA Officer (or fraud lead) for disposition; SAR Committee for filings. Single accountable analyst, escalation path documented.
→ Owner + committee
03 Decision
File / no-file, close / escalate, with documented rationale tied to typology and evidence.
→ Disposition rationale
04 Action
Disposition recorded, customer-impacting actions executed, SAR filed if applicable.
→ Action log + SAR
05 Outcome
Every alert has a rationale on the record. SAR backlog and aging are visible, not anecdotal.
→ Closure record

What you’ll see

A live view of every item, its owner, its deadline, and the evidence behind its current status.

SAR queue — Q2 2026 Sample

Open alerts

47

Past 30-day

4

SARs filed YTD

31

Avg. close

12d

Alert Typology Owner Due Status
ALR-1142 Structuring, cash deposits K. Nguyen May 18 Past due
ALR-1138 Wire to high-risk jurisdiction J. Ortiz May 24 Investigating
SAR-0427 Elder financial exploitation K. Nguyen Jun 02 Drafting SAR
ALR-1129 ACH money-mule pattern J. Ortiz May 21 SAR filed

Evidence captured

Alert source + scoring
Owner assignment
Disposition rationale
Investigation log
Evidence + filings
SAR committee signoff

Built for the BSA Officer

Replaces the case-management spreadsheet and SAR-tracking workbook most teams still maintain alongside their monitoring system. Gives the BSAO one queue, consistent disposition rationale, and visible SAR aging.

Apex linkage

Strategic & Board Decisions inherit operational evidence from this workflow. Decisions made here flow upward to the apex layer automatically — a board-level capital, risk-appetite, or strategic-plan decision ties back to the operational record beneath it.

Feeds the apex workflow →

How to start

Start free with one workflow on your data, then upgrade to Team or Business as you scale. For multi-workflow scope or apex linkage, see pricing or talk to us about Business.